More than nine out of 10 white Britons have no or hardly any ethnic minority friends, according to a poll that reveals the continuing gulf between races and religions more than 40 years after the UK became a multicultural society.

The Guardian has seen details of the survey, to be released this week by the Commission for Racial Equality.

It shows that a majority of white people do not share the bonds of close friendship with their fellow black, Asian or Muslim Britons, meaning they may lack the empathy that close contact can bring. The CRE warns this leaves swaths of the population open to believing the worst of different ethnic and religious groups.

The poll found that 94% of white people say most or all their friends are of the same race, while 47% of ethnic minorities say white people form all or most of their friends. More than half of white people, 54%, said they did not have a single black or Asian person they considered a close friend.

Oh dear,next we will be seeing the CRE getting a law passed to charge whites for hate crimes,due to not having any ethnic friends.

Well,I am quite happy that my friends are white and will stay that way.

Please don't give the Marxist extremist loons of the CRE any more insane ideas as they may well take this one up!

How can they calculate these statistics accurately? I, for one, would be unlikely to have any black friends because I am lucky enough to live in a very white town. You could only do this survey correctly if you asked people who live in 'diverse' areas.

No doubt, this is yet another attempt by the PC fanatics at the Guardian to make out that only whitey is racist and to make us all feel guilty.

So the 'Witchfinder General' Trevor Phillips wants "American-style Summer Camps" so we can all mix with ethnics and become friends with them? I bet his "American-style Summer Camps" would, in fact, be nothing like their summer camps, more like a Marxist PC version of the Hitler Youth/League of German Girls where we would all be indroctrinated into support for the Multi-Cult and obeying the PC dictats of our 'fuhrer' Tony Bliar.

Might this have something to do with the fact that ethnics only make up 3% of the UK population? According to the article, nearly half of all ethnics said that most or all of their friends are white, so unfortunately it doesn't sound like they're having much trouble making white friends.

They are invading our country, pretending to be citizens, and they don't even like us. They miss few opportunities to make plain their dislike of us.

This goes also for Asians, with a few exceptions. These exceptions are mostly Hindus rather than Muslims, and most will have been privately educated. Not typical of their stock in any way.

Would you think that the BBC's (Muslim) Rageh Omar is a typical Somali asylum seeker? His first job, after public school and Oxford University was as a journalist for the "Brixham Voice". So we can tell where his loyalties lie, although it is most unlikely that he would wish to disclose them in a public forum.

Quite true Brentwood Racist. However the good news it seems that indirectly because of the choice of friends being made are mostly WHITE. This does indicate some semblance of 'racial consciousness'.

It only goes to prove that 'racial consciousness', 'racism/racialism', whatever you want to call it, or whatever liberal swearword is applied to it, is an inherent part of human nature which is present in people of all nations/races, and is therefore natural.

It only goes to prove that 'racial consciousness', 'racism/racialism', whatever you want to call it, or whatever liberal swearword is applied to it, is an inherent part of human nature which is present in people of all nations/races, and is therefore natural.

Exactly! This is another example of the fact that people prefer to stick with there own kind, it is part of human nature to do so. Hopefully this is another nail in the coffin for our 'wonderful' multicultural society!